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Thursday, March 7, 2019

Walter Block: US Government Should Ignore, Not Overthrow, ‘Evil Dictators’

By Adam Dick - March 07, 2019 at 10:28AM

Ron Paul Institute Academic Board Member Walter Block has some clear advice regarding what the United States government should do about “evil dictators” around the world: Ignore them. After all, Block, an economics professor at Loyola University and prominent libertarian scholar, writes in a Tuesday lewrockwell.com blog post, there is “no country, no groups of individuals with the power, or the intention,” to invade or conquer America.

And how about those Americans who feel something must be done about the “evil dictators?” Block provides this option:

If individual US citizens want to go abroad to make the “world safe for democracy” or safe for anything else, there is nothing in the libertarian philosophy to stop them. Let them borrow a leaf from the Lincoln Brigade, a bunch of private citizens from the US, the UK, and elsewhere, who went to Spain in 1936 to fight Franco.

Read here Block’s blog post in the form of an emailed question to Block along with his response.